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“As the President has said, the shutdown that occurred last month inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our economy and took a toll on families and businesses across the country,” the White House Office of Budget and Management said in releasing the report.

The administration estimates that the shutdown will shrink fourth quarter economic growth by 0.25 percent, resulting in an estimated 120,000 fewer private-sector jobs for the first two weeks of October. The Labor Department will release the latest employment report on Friday.

The report lists various ways in which the administration found the shutdown hurt the economy or denied taxpayer’s needed government services.

The list includes:

— Workshops for more than 1,400 military service members intended to help transition them to civilian life were delayed;

— The Internal Revenue Service had 1.2 million verification requests that officials couldn’t process, potentially delaying mortgage and loan approvals;

—The National Parks Service lost more than $500 million in visitor spending nationwide with parks closed; and

— Efforts to reduce a blacklog of veterans’ disability claims were delayed.

The report noted that the shutdown hit agencies as federal workers were already grappling with the fallout from automatic spending cuts known as sequestration that took effect earlier this year.

“Furloughs during the shutdown also followed an unprecedented three-year pay freeze for Federal employees, and, for hundreds of thousands of workers, administrative furloughs earlier this years caused by sequestration,” according to the report. “The shutdown disrupted agency operations in many ways and has been challenging to recover from.”